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- From: carrato@mhinfo.UUCP (Tony Carrato)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc
- Subject: Re: Future of DCE?
- Message-ID: <81@mhinfo.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 05:16:34 GMT
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- Reply-To: carrato@mhinfo.UUCP (Tony Carrato)
- Organization: Mile-High Information Services, Inc.
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- I decided not to quote either myself or anyone else anymore - lots of
- that already :)
-
- Some points that have come up in the discussion:
-
- 1) Will OSF go broke?
-
- It doesn't appear likely. Reasons are:
-
- a) The sponsors, the large companies paying lots of money per
- year to OSF, continue to be committed to that.
-
- b) The sponsors really can't afford any longer to do the engineering
- needed for these sorts of products themselves. The products,
- though OSF doesn't call them that, include Motif, DCE and DME
- as well as OSF/1.
-
- c) OSF's royalty stream is slowly increasing but it is increasing.
-
- 2) Will product based on OSF technology diverge to the point they don't
- interoperate?
-
- I don't believe so. OSF has already got a good bit of a compliance testing
- program in place and is extending it. In May they are sponsoring, at the
- member meeting in Boston, an event to demonstrate that interoperability
- that is being supported by a number of big players, IBM, DEC, HP, etc.
- as well as various ISV's, which should go a long way to demonstrating what
- people want to see, products actually working.
-
- 3) What is OSF's direction and how is it influence?
-
- This one is trickier. However, OSF regularly says pretty similar
- things about technology, including the importance of parallelism and
- multiprocessor architectures, as well as some other items that are
- escaping me due to being tired right now. In addition, the members of
- OSF, including to a VERY signifigant degree the end user members,
- have a lot of influence on where they head.
-
- This is not to say they can't or won't stumble. In fact, they are
- likely to do so but they have a pretty good chance of picking
- themselves up and continuing afterward.
-
- Tony
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